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LaPeque · 08-25-2008, 01:12 PM

Hi all - I promise one day I'll have more to talk about than poop.

I switched Oscar to the prey diet about 5 days ago. I'm feeding him raw chicken drumsticks in addition to small amounts of organ meat - chicken livers and hearts.

He is about 4 months now, and ever since I got him at about 3 months his poop has been the consistency of soft serve ice cream.

For the last couple days he's had much smaller, darker poops than normal. (They are almost black and about half the volume of his old poops). I know one of the benefits of the prey model is that the dogs poop less, the poos are dark and hard and it's not as stinky, which I've found to be true.

The one thing that did catch my attention and cause me to worry a bit are the shards of bone mixed in his poo - when he eats the drumsticks he tears off and eats the meat, and generally eats about 3/4 of the bone.

I'm assuming his system is capable of handling the raw bone and that I shouldn't be overly worried about seeing it in such an undigested state in his poop, but I wanted to check.

Thanks beforehand for sharing your diet & poo expertise with me!

08-25-2008, 01:12 PM	#1
LaPeque Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: State College, PA Posts: 177	Changes in poop after switching to prey diet Hi all - I promise one day I'll have more to talk about than poop. I switched Oscar to the prey diet about 5 days ago. I'm feeding him raw chicken drumsticks in addition to small amounts of organ meat - chicken livers and hearts. He is about 4 months now, and ever since I got him at about 3 months his poop has been the consistency of soft serve ice cream. For the last couple days he's had much smaller, darker poops than normal. (They are almost black and about half the volume of his old poops). I know one of the benefits of the prey model is that the dogs poop less, the poos are dark and hard and it's not as stinky, which I've found to be true. The one thing that did catch my attention and cause me to worry a bit are the shards of bone mixed in his poo - when he eats the drumsticks he tears off and eats the meat, and generally eats about 3/4 of the bone. I'm assuming his system is capable of handling the raw bone and that I shouldn't be overly worried about seeing it in such an undigested state in his poop, but I wanted to check. Thanks beforehand for sharing your diet & poo expertise with me!